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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

"We're once again here to announce the immediate availability of Sabayon 6, one of the biggest milestones in our project. Letting bleeding edge and reliability coexist is the most outstanding challenge our users and our team are faced with every day. Features: Linux kernel 2.6.39.1 and blazing fast, yet reliable, boot; natively supporting the Btrfs file system; completely redesigned artwork and boot music introduction; improved themes for 16:9 and 16:10 widescreen monitors; X.Org Server updated to 1.10...."

For this test, I used the Gnome version, which has wisely retained Gnome 2 for the time being. The live DVD came with a good selection of software, which was generally sound: a couple of programs generated warnings from bash, but only two fatal bugs were detected. One was solved in just 3 days and the other is being investigated. All codecs were installed and working.

The dependency-resolution problems I’d had with version 5.5 seem to have been sorted out, but Sulfur, the GUI package manager, is still very slow and rather confusing. Equo, the CLI tool, is much better.

My principal problem was that the network manager frequently set the address wrongly, until I gave up dhcp. This has happened with several distros (my router seems to trouble certain software), but the forum does have quite a few reports of problems with both wired and wireless networking.

If your network is trouble free, you can live with Sulfur (or be content with equo), and you like shiny new software, Sabayon is worth a trial.